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XenoMind
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10 May 2017, 10:38 pm

Well, I had a broken arm dismissed once. The doctor in my school said "stop making things up".



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20 Jun 2017, 6:32 am

I'm fortunate. My doctor is very understanding of me.



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29 Jun 2017, 6:59 pm

Anxiety etc., can cause severe physical issues (gastric, chest pain, muscle pain, etc) but no doctor should dismiss any physical symptoms as mental health related without proper testing. This is highly unprofessional and borderline criminal offense IMHO. I've had issues clearly related to anxiety but I was thoroughly tested before such conclusion was reached.



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29 Jun 2017, 9:19 pm

I've only been to the gp once in the last 11 years. I got fed up with gps dismissing physical concerns as mental health issues.
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yes, exactly.

told the doctor about bloody stools. "only a little?". only three times?". "you look healthy." "you look young. are you a student?".

(what?)

then she told me i got at least 2 hemorrhoids. she acted like i was a hypochondriac. Munchausens.

she told me she would get me a Fecal Occult Blood Test. she left the room and did not return.

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a different doctor had the nerve to tell me that he thought the unexplained weight loss and constipation was caused by clinical depression.

bowel movements, 3 per day, for 30 minutes to 2 hours each? caused by clinical depression?

Food Maxx, Cafe Leila, Nordstrom, and other companies have already had the nerve to ban me, for wasting too long in the bathroom.

numerous times, someone asks "are you okay?".

not to mention impatient customers and employees banging on the door.

could this just be clinical depression? plenty of people are clinically depressed.

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and then a different doctor told me 3x a day for an hour each time was okay.

then he told me to take laxatives.




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took laxatives. no good or bad effects. and it costs money. it might be addictive. so stopped taking it.

for a while, took a break from pills. b/c they could induce dependence.

and then had more chronic severe constipation.

took stool softeners. went through a bottle.

no effect.

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thus it has been three (3) different doctors.

afraid. paranoid. intimidated. uptight. edgy. hateful. anxious. angry.

do not feel comfortable to go crying to the fourth (4) doctor.


not only that, but they acted like i was wasting their time.

big egoes



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29 Jun 2017, 10:30 pm

Where did you get these scores? "Your neurodiverse (Aspie) score: 152 of 200
Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 64 of 200"

On the subject, I am dealing with some very serious health/illness problems and have not been able to get doctors to address them properly. I have an array of problems from four non-cancerous tumors around my body, a heart problem that needs a procedure rather than medication that makes me ill, five thyroid tumors that are choking me, a bowel obstruction that is getting much worse and a uterine growth that is causing bleeding. I do not have high blood pressure and the medications that treat the heart problem lower blood pressure significantly. The procedure will "cure" me, i.e. I will not have to take medication for the heart problem after it.

Things will start out okay with a doctor then they get very put off by me and just close down. I think it is because I research myself and do not worship their medical knowledge. I respect them but I feel my opinion and self advocacy are important too. I have a strong feeling that I miss cues from them and then they think ill of me.

Some of these health problems are coming to critical mass and could easily be fatal. I have been trying to get things done for almost three years.

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feral botanist wrote:
Yes! Doctors have almost killed me on two occasions beause of this.


Me too.

The first diagnosed me with ''IBS"" without doing any tests when I was 17 because I was depressed and had PTSD and supposedly that caused my GI issues in his eyes, well 10 years later in the emergency room it turned out to be Crohns disease and I had struggled with it for 10 years without treatment. That almost killed me.

Then two years later I started to have problems breathing, and because I was calm and collected at the ER they thought it was just side effects from the Prednisone I took and sent me home from the emergency room three times in a weekend. I called my specialist on the monday after and it turned out I had a saddle embolus, one of the deadliest kinds of blood clots you can get and I had a 25% chance to survive that night. I am so grateful that my own GI doctor DID listen, or I would have been dead.

I am still alive, but I often struggle with my calm demeanor and doctors not taking me seriously because of it. I can't feign panic or cry like NT's do when I am in pain or am really concerned (I am used to pain and can't cry because of it) and I often get neglected when it comes to pain medication or treatment because of it. Because of my Aspergers, the more stressed I get the more calm my face looks because I get tense but I don't cry and as long as you're not crying or whimpering NT doctors think you're not in real pain or don't have real problems.



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14 Jul 2017, 5:12 am

So many patients have died that way-- people thinking they were imagining their physical illness due to mental health issues, or thinking the physical illness was caused by mental health issues. Sometimes it's wishful thinking.

I'm HOPING some pains I'm getting in my chest are from Abilify and that once the Abilify leaves my system the pains will stop; I stopped the Abilify 2 days ago and still got a sharp pain lasting 2 seconds today. Okay, now I need to start a new thread.